Entry № 2499 · Sanskrit origin

Didda Didda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DID-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Kashmir's ruling queen (Catherine of Kashmir)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "kashmir's ruling queen (catherine of kashmir)".

Didda (c. 924-1003) was the ruling Queen of Kashmir for nearly 50 years (958-1003), first as regent then in her own right — founder of the Lohara dynasty. Called "the Catherine of Kashmir" by historians, she was politically ruthless yet a great patron of architecture and Buddhism. Kalhana's chronicle Rajatarangini (1148-49) gives her the longest treatment of any Kashmiri ruler.

Among the most consequential female rulers of medieval India.

Kashmir's ruling queen. The Catherine of Kashmir — reigned nearly 50 years.

The name in its native script.

दिद्दा
Transliteration
Diddā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɪd.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Didda stands.

Didda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Diddas before her.

Real people
Queen Didda
Queen of Kashmir.
c. 924 – 1003
In fiction
Didda
Kalhana's Rajatarangini.
1148-49

Names connected to Didda.

The number behind Didda.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Didda reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.